Accused was charged for participating in murder

- A court in Kisii has reopened the trail of a man who was accused of murder after the court realised he did not get a fair trail

- By the time the judge sentenced Douglas Osoro Sianyi to death, a postmoterm report of a man he is alleged to have killed had not been presented to the court

A man has been serving a 14-year sentence since 2012 after a Kisii court wrongly convicted him for murder. The same court has now reopened the case after realising the accused may not have had a fair trail.

Douglas Osoro Sianyi was charged for participating in the murder of Daniel Nyamboga who was killed on September 02, 2012 at Nyamwere sub-location Kisii County.

Sianyi has been cooling his heels at the Kisii main prison after he was found guilty. His fate was sealed after he was found with a shirt which had blood stains. His case will now be reviewed because the exhibits were not present in court during the sentencing.

By the time Sianyi was sentenced, the postmortem report of the deceased was missing. The prosecution had also presented before the court that Sianyi was the son of the deceased.

According to the charge sheet, Melan Nyaboke, the wife of the deceased wjo was also a witness said that around 7:00pm she heard the deceased calling her outside their homestead. She lit a lamp and went to see him.

On arrival she found him lying down in a pool of blood with several cuttings and wounds on his body.

They family rushed her husband to Keumbu District Hospital. He was later transferred to Kisii Teaching and Referral Hospital where he died after an hour.